Water management today is faced with new challenges such as climate change or the effects of human activity. Public and private stakeholders who are active in this field must develop new ways to better manage the water cycle "as a whole".
The objective of this MOOC is to develop an understanding of the problems related to water management. Firstly, this course will define a resource and, more specifically, the resource of water. It will look at how water is used and the activities associated with it as well as any potential conflicts. The course will look at water management in detail through the analysis of the different types of rights and obligations associated with, for example, the development of a multi-sectorial regulation system or a watershed management approach.
By the end of this course, our aim is to enable you to:
1) Identify the main issues and strategies linked to water resource management
2) Acquire the key reading material needed to understand the many variables (environmental, institutional and political) which affect water and which, in terms of management, may require adjustment.
This course was developed by the Geneva Water Hub. Alongside researchers from the University of Geneva from a range of faculties, researchers from other universities and research centres will be involved in this course. Practitioners who deal daily with the political dimension of water management will also input into the course.
This MOOC is designed for all those interested in the water sector. Prior training is not necessary to follow our program. The findings presented in this course can be easily reapplied to different contexts and to different scales of analysis.
This MOOC is supported by the Geneva Water Hub and the University of Geneva along with the MOOC in « Ecosystem Services: a Method for Sustainable Development » (www.coursera.org/learn/ecosystem-services) and the one in "International Water Law" (www.coursera.org/learn/droit-eau). This course is funded by the Global Programme Water Initiatives of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
This course is also available in French : www.coursera.org/learn/gestion-eau

KS

I learnt a lot especially when its to saving and managing water for the society...With increase in global warming water resource management should be taken seriously because water is life

HD

Aug 27, 2019

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The course increases my understanding of water management and policy but also sparks my interest to extend to the management and policy of other natural resources in general.

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Module 4: The Integrated Watershed Management (IWM)

In this module, we further examine water management but this time we look specifically at how watersheds are managed. We see how stakeholders in Switzerland, in Europe (with the case of the Rhine) and internationally have promoted this concept as a reference for water management. These case studies allow us to identify the benefits and limitations (both practical and institutional) that are presented by the Integrated Watershed Management approach. The module is concluded by a quiz worth 20% of the final grade. You must have at least 80% of the responses correct to pass the module.

Enseigné par

Christian Bréthaut

Assistant Professor

Géraldine Pflieger

Professeure associée

Transcription

[MUSIC] [MUSIC] We have just seen with these examples that even if the watershed became the great paradigm, guiding all reforms in water management in the world, well it still remains a concept that is extremely difficult to implement. It takes time, and then it faces resistance tensions with institutional territories depending on the context and cultures. Also, it is not easy to put in place a body of integrated watershed management. So in order to overcome all these questions, we will now deal with conflicts and cooperation at the watershed scale with or without a basin committee to better understand how the actors, whether the users, state or collective actors coordinate themselves. We will take the case of the Nile Basin as an example. This will allow us to better understand how cooperation is achieved without necessarily resorting to established institutional solutions such as the integrated governance of a river. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC]